Doreen Boonekamp receives Municipality of Utrecht Culture Prize

Doreen Boonekamp, Director of the Netherlands Film Festival, will receive the 2009 Culture Prize of the Municipality of Utrecht from Alderman van Eijk on April 17. This prize is awarded once every three years to a person, group, or organization that has been of great importance to the cultural life of the city of Utrecht over an extended period.

Doreen Boonekamp is receiving the award because she has done so much for the Utrecht arts sector in recent years. She effectively used her national reputation in the recent negotiations regarding the Arts Plan 2009–2012 for the benefit of the cultural sector in Utrecht. Furthermore, under her leadership, the Netherlands Film Festival has grown into the largest media event in the Netherlands. According to Alderman van Eijk, Doreen Boonekamp is very valuable to cultural life in the city of Utrecht. “With her extensive national network and boundless dedication, she is pre-eminently the ambassador of the Utrecht arts sector.”

The City of Utrecht Culture Prize was established by the Municipal Executive in 1991. To date, the prize has been awarded five times: to the Organisation for Early Music (1992), Aram Adriaanse, director and programmer, including at the Paardenkathedraal (1995), posthumously to Tineke de Jonge, director of the multicultural center Rasa at the time of her death (1998), Guus Reith, teacher at Niels Stensen College and active in the field of cultural education (2001), and Rien Sprenger, Chairman of the Board of the Faculty of Theatre at the Utrecht University of the Arts (2004).



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